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1 online resource (243 pages) |
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Summary |
Why discuss birth and death when they lie outside discourse, confronting us Other experiences that cannot be put into words? And why look at them together when they are so much unlike each other, one the moment of fresh beginnings, joys, and the relative certainties of existence, the other the moment of life's end, grief, and the relative uncertainties of non-existence? Because it turns out that both events, while virtually unrepresentable, have spawned a host of representations, narratives, r ... |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Popular culture -- Great Britain.
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Popular culture. |
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Great Britain. |
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Cultural studies. |
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Sociology: death & dying. |
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Sociology: birth. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. |
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Viol, Claus-Ulrich.
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De Waal, Ariane.
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Print version: 9781443838887 |
ISBN |
9781443839334 |
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1443839337 |
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9781443838887 (hardback) |
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1443838888 (hardback) |
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